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title: "Brazil vs Colombia — area, population, currency"
description: "Brazil is 8,515,770 km² with 212,812,405 people; Colombia is 1,138,910 km² with 53,425,635. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/brazil-vs-colombia/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Brazil vs Colombia

**Brazil vs Colombia: Brazil is larger; Brazil has more people**

8,515,770 km² vs 1,138,910 km² · 212,812,405 vs 53,425,635

Brazil is 7.5 times larger than Colombia — 8,515,770 against 1,138,910 km². Brazil is 4.0 times more populous than Colombia — 212,812,405 against 53,425,635 people.

## Side by side

|  | Brazil | Colombia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Brasília | Bogotá |
| Area | 8,515,770 km² | 1,138,910 km² |
| Population | 212,812,405 (2025) | 53,425,635 (2025) |
| Density | 25.0 /km² | 46.9 /km² |
| Currency | Brazilian real (BRL) | Colombian peso (COP) |
| Official languages | Portuguese | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 | UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +55 | +57 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | South America | South America |
| ISO codes | BR / BRA | CO / COL |

## Population density

Colombia is 1.9 times more densely populated than Brazil — 47 against 25 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

## Practical differences

- Different currencies: the Brazilian real and the Colombian peso.
- Brazil spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.

## Brazil

The fifth-largest country in the world and the largest in the southern hemisphere. It holds about sixty percent of the Amazon rainforest, and the Amazon River discharges roughly a fifth of all the fresh water that reaches the world's oceans — more than the next seven rivers combined. Brazil borders every South American country except Chile and Ecuador.

## Colombia

The only South American country with coastline on both the Pacific and the Caribbean. It has more bird species than any other country, around 1,900, and more orchid species too. The Andes split into three separate ranges here, and the Chocó on the Pacific side is among the wettest places on Earth, with over 10 m of rain a year in places.

> Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.

## Common questions

### Is Brazil bigger than Colombia?

Brazil is larger — 8,515,770 km² against 1,138,910 km².

### Which has more people, Brazil or Colombia?

Brazil, with 212,812,405 against 53,425,635.

### What is the time difference between Brazil and Colombia?

Brazil is UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00 and Colombia is UTC-05:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

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- [Colombia](https://atoneplace.net/country/colombia/)
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## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]